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Complex mortuary dynamics in the Upper Paleolithic of the decorated Grotte de Cussac, France. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020
Significance Gravettian mortuary practices provide a key perspective on social complexity during the Upper Paleolithic. Such inferences have been drawn mostly from the formal burials relatively abundant for this period.
Kacki S, Trinkaus E, Schotsmans EMJ, Courtaud P, Dori I, Dutailly B, Guyomarc'h P, Mora P, Sparacello VS, Villotte S.   +9 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Delayed increase in stone tool cutting-edge productivity at the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition in southern Jordan [PDF]

Nature Communications
Although the lithic cutting-edge productivity has long been recognized as a quantifiable aspect of prehistoric human technological evolution, there remains uncertainty how the productivity changed during the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition.
Seiji Kadowaki, Joe Yuichiro Wakano, Toru Tamura, Ayami Watanabe, Masato Hirose, Eiki Suga, Kazuhiro Tsukada, Oday Tarawneh, Sate Massadeh   +8 more
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Behavioral Modernity and the Cultural Transmission of Structured Information: The Semantic Axelrod Model [PDF]

arXiv, 2014
Cultural transmission models are coming to the fore in explaining increases in the Paleolithic toolkit richness and diversity. During the later Paleolithic, technologies increase not only in terms of diversity but also in their complexity and interdependence.
A Bouzouggar, A Högberg, A Mesoudi, BD MacArthur, BD McKay, C Castellano, C Castellano, CD Godsil, D Smilkov, D Stout, D Stout, DB Bamforth, F d’Errico, F d’Errico, G Csibra, GB Tostevin, H Neff, H Terashima, J Eerkens, J González-Avella, J González-Avella, J Henrich, JC González-Avella, JC González-Avella, JR Ferguson, K Aoki, K Aoki, K Klemm, K Klemm, K Klemm, K Sterelny, L Castro, L Fogarty, L Premo, L Sanctis De, LG Straus, M Collard, M Collard, M Collard, M Collard, M Derex, M Kempe, M Muthukrishna, M O’Brien, MB Schiffer, MJ O’Brien, MW Moore, N Creanza, N Lanchier, O Bar-Yosef, P Bleed, P Bleed, P Bleed, P Moran, P Villa, R Axelrod, R Otter, RC Dunnell, RC Schank, RG Klein, S Kuhn, S McBrearty, S McBrearty, S Shennan, S Shennan, W Nakahashi, WC Wimsatt, WC Wimsatt, Y Nishiaki   +68 more
arxiv   +3 more sources

Монгол-германы хамтарсан чулуун зэвсгийн судалгааны ангийн 2012 онд хийсэн малтлага судалгааны урьдчилсан үр дүн [PDF]

Proceedings of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, 2017
Mongolian and Germany joint expedition start­ed research excavation at the “Tulbur-16” Pa­leolithic site in 2012. The excavation covered totally 5 sq.m. In the result of the excavation, there stratigraphic has seven layers and 3664 stone tools are found.
Гүнчинсүрэн Б, Болорбат Ц, Н Звинс   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Correction: Chronological reassessment of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition and Early Upper Paleolithic cultures in Cantabrian Spain. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0194708.].
Ana B Marín-Arroyo, Joseba Rios-Garaizar, Lawrence G Straus, Jennifer R Jones, Marco de la Rasilla, Manuel R González Morales, Michael Richards, Jesús Altuna, Koro Mariezkurrena, David Ocio   +9 more
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Subsistence strategy changes during the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition reveals specific adaptations of Human Populations to their environment. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2019
The transition from Middle to Upper Paleolithic is a major biological and cultural threshold in the construction of our common humanity. Technological and behavioral changes happened simultaneously to a major climatic cooling, which reached its acme with
Rendu W, Renou S, Soulier MC, Rigaud S, Roussel M, Soressi M.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Ushbulak—A New Stratified Upper Paleolithic Site in Northeastern Kazakhstan

Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia, 2020
А.А. Anoikin1, G.D. Pavlenok1, V.M. Kharevich1, Z.K. Taimagambetov2, A.V. Shalagina1, S.A. Gladyshev1, V.A. Ulyanov1, 3, R.S. Duvanbekov2, and M.V. Shunkov1 1Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pr ...
Z K Taimagambetov, Alena V Shalagina, Y N Garkusha   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

The oldest anatomically modern humans from far southeast Europe: direct dating, culture and behavior. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
BACKGROUND: Anatomically Modern Humans (AMHs) are known to have spread across Europe during the period coinciding with the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition.
Sandrine Prat, Stéphane C Péan, Laurent Crépin, Dorothée G Drucker, Simon J Puaud, Hélène Valladas, Martina Lázničková-Galetová, Johannes van der Plicht, Alexander Yanevich   +8 more
doaj   +10 more sources

Opportunism or aquatic specialization? Evidence of freshwater fish exploitation at Ohalo II- A waterlogged Upper Paleolithic site. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2018
Analysis of ca. 17,000 fish remains recovered from the late Upper Paleolithic/early Epi-Paleolithic (LGM; 23,000 BP) waterlogged site of Ohalo II (Rift Valley, Israel) provides new insights into the role of wetland habitats and the fish inhabiting them ...
Zohar I, Dayan T, Goren M, Nadel D, Hershkovitz I.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Animal residues found on tiny Lower Paleolithic tools reveal their use in butchery [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2019
Stone tools provide a unique window into the mode of adaptation and cognitive abilities of Lower Paleolithic early humans. The persistently produced large cutting tools (bifaces/handaxes) have long been an appealing focus of research in the ...
Flavia Venditti, Aviad Agam, Cristina Lemorini   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources